While the Megaupload criminal process rumbles on, there's a controversy emerging around what happens to the 25 petabytes of content uploaded to the service by its users.
November 10th, 2011 by Music Ally
The debate around the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) continues to rage in the US, with the Electronic Frontier Foundation the latest campaigning body to weigh in with its views.
August 8th, 2011 by Music Ally
The US government's moves to seize domain names belonging to foreign sites accused of piracy has been controversial, but according to a District Court judge, it's not illegal. One of the sites whose domain...
July 19th, 2011 by Music Ally
Last week, a group of US ISPs and content rightsholders agreed a plan to introduce graduated response measures to tackle online piracy. Now the Electronic Frontier Foundation has attacked the deal, which...
June 30th, 2010 by Music Ally
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the latest member of ASCAP's 'axis of evil' to hit back at the US collecting society, saying that it believes artists should be compensated for their work. ASCAP sent...
March 11th, 2010 by Music Ally
More than 100,000 app developers have copies of Apple's iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, so it's not secret - but they're not allowed to talk about it or publish it.
June 22nd, 2009 by Music Ally
If it is, should mobile phone users have licences to play their ringtones? That's the question at issue in an ongoing court battle between ASCAP and AT&T.
April 29th, 2009 by Music Ally
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against Apple over the latter's attempt to stop members of a site called BluWiki from discussing how to put music apps Winamp and Songbird on...
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